Posted on 10/24/2005 6:18:52 AM PDT by jalisco555
LONDON (Reuters) - Mobsters in the 1990 film "Goodfellas" have beaten a fear of heights in "Vertigo" and the great white shark of "Jaws" to help the Martin Scorsese film clench the mantle of greatest movie of all time in a survey of UK film experts.
Goodfellas, which featured Ray Liotta, Robert de Niro and an Oscar winning supporting role from Joe Pesci, topped the list of 100 movies in a survey of film critics by Total Film.
"Goodfellas has everything, in terms of its technical brilliance, its huge influence on modern film-making and its spikiness and rewatchability," Total Film features editor Jamie Graham told Reuters.
Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 classic "Vertigo" took second place, while third went to Steven Spielberg's 1975 classic "Jaws," the tale of a coastal town terrorised by a great white shark.
Goodfellas, which was based on the story of real-life mobster Henry Hill, also beat Citizen Kane, the 1941 Orson Welles film that tops many critics lists but which finished in sixth position in the Total Film poll.
The 10 ten films in the list included two made in the last decade, the 1999 film "Fight Club," starring Brad Pitt, and the Lord of the Rings trilogy directed by Peter Jackson.
Fight Club took fourth position ahead of other classics such as "Tokyo Story" and "Taxi Driver."
"By no means were we trying to be perverse, but we were setting out to make a list that was a bit more modern," Graham said.
no shows?......
No mention of Napoleon Dynamite. I think this poll is rigged! :)
Like anyone could even know that!
NO way. It doesn't come close to the Godfather I or II.
The best mob movie of all time, that's for sure.
No question about it, Godfathers I and II, by far the best movies ever made.
Terrific acting, that's for sure, but I think the first two Godfather flicks taken as a whole should get that honor.
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The Godfather movies are great, no question -- although II is better than I in my opinion.
But Goodfellas hits harder because it is grittier, and doesn't romanticize the gangsters the way that GF films do.
Goodfellas shows what lowlives they are, whereas the GF makes them seem almost noble.
I find Goodfellas to be one of those movies that I always watch whenever I am channel surfing and run across it. I almost never watch the GF movies.
Here's my Casablanca story. I saw it for the first time at college during a 40's film festival. During the first scene where Bogart is shown all the women in the theater gasped. It was an amazing, spontaneous moment. I had no idea until then how much raw sex appeal Bogart had.
"UK film experts"
IOW, people who couldn't even hold down a job at McDonald's.
Idiots.
Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci): Oh, oh, Anthony. He's a big boy, he knows what he said. What did you say? Funny how?
Henry Hill (Ray Liotta): It's...
Tommy DeVito: What?
Henry Hill: Just... ya know, you're, you're funny.
Tommy DeVito: What do ya mean, funny? Let me understand this cause, I don't know maybe it's me, I'm a little f*cked up maybe, but I'm funny how? I mean, funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh... I'm here to f*ckin' amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny?
Henry Hill: You know, how you tell a story, what?
Tommy DeVito: No, no, I don't know... you said it. How do I know? You said I'm funny. How the f*ck am I funny, what the f*ck is so funny about me? Tell me. Tell me what's funny!
Henry Hill: Get the f*ck outta here, Tommy!
Tommy DeVito: Ya motherf*cker, I almost had him, I almost had him! Ya stutterin' pr*ck ya! Frankie, was he shakin'?
Agreed. I can watch the Godfather 1 & 2 over and over and over, even though I have already seen it a million times. I will watch re-runs over new programming like 99% of the time.
Any list that doesn't include "Raising Arizona" is a BS list. :)
Huh?
The article is a bit vague as to who these "experts" are, I admit.
Yeah, that was a good one. I just saw one of my personal top 10, "Wargames", last night for the umpteenth time.
Where's Braveheart?
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